Method and System for an Intercept Chain of Custody Protocol

1. A method, comprising: negotiating a data collection interval time for electronic data collection between network equipment associated with a data collecting party and network equipment associated with a data receiving party; receiving a nonce at a network equipment associated with the data collecting party from network equipment associated with the data receiving party; utilizing the nonce to compute, at least in part, a hash value at network equipment associated with the data collecting party; collecting electronic data at an intercept access device at network equipment associated with the data collecting party; utilizing the nonce and the hash value to transmit the collected electronic data to network equipment associated with the data receiving party; and utilizing the hash value to establish a chain of custody between the data collecting party and the data receiving party.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data receiving party is a law enforcement agency.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data collecting party is a service provider.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the hash value is computed utilizing the nonce, a data collecting party secret, an initialization vector and a network element ID.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the nonce enables the receiving party to verify the validity of the collected data.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising a second hash value utilized to verify data integrity.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the second hash value comprises a hash value computed for a packet utilizing the entire packet and the nonce.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the hash value is computed utilizing a Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA).

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising computing the hash and utilizing the hash to encapsulate a packet for each of one or more hops the packet is transmitted across from network equipment associated with the data collecting party to network equipment associated with the data receiving party.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein encapsulation enables the data receiving party to verify the one or more hops for which the packet is encapsulated.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the packet contains a network element ID identifying network equipment associated with the one or more hops for which the packet is encapsulated.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the collected electronic data utilizes Inter-Control Center Communications Protocol (ICCP).

13. A non-transitory computer readable media comprising code to perform the acts of the method of claim 1 .

14. A system, comprising: a receiver device configured to receive intercept instructions for intercepting information and a nonce from a data requesting party; a computer processor communicatively coupled to the receiver device and configured to: negotiate a data collection interval time between the data requesting party and a data collecting party; identify and intercept information based on the intercept instructions; format the intercepted information utilizing the nonce to compute a hash value; utilizing the hash to encapsulate the intercepted information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the encapsulated intercept information to the data requesting party.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein nonce enables the data requesting party to verify the validity of the intercepted information.

16. A system, comprising: one or more mediation devices configured to receive intercept instructions for intercepting information and a nonce from a data requesting party, wherein the one or more mediation devices utilize the nonce to compute a hash value and the hash value a chain of custody for intercepted information; an intercept access device configured to receive the intercept instructions from the one or more mediation devices, wherein the intercept access device identifies and intercepts information based on the intercept instructions; and an intercept load balancer configured to receive the intercepted information and transmit the intercepted information to the one or more mediation devices for distribution to the data requesting party.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the requesting party is a law enforcement agency.

18. The system of claim 16 , wherein the mediation device computes the hash value utilizing the nonce, a data collecting party secret, an initialization vector and a network element ID.

19. The system of claim 16 , wherein nonce enables the requesting party to verify the validity of the intercepted information.

20. The system of claim 16 , further comprising a second hash value utilized by the requesting party to verify data integrity of the intercepted information.

21. The system of claim 16 , further comprising computing the hash at least one of: an intercept access device, a mediation device, and an intercept load balancer, wherein the hash is utilized to encapsulate a packet for a hop the packet is transmitted across from the mediation device to the requesting party.